🌱 How a Monongahela baker turned cookies into history-saving funds

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• How a Monongahela baker turned cookies into history-saving funds

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Today's riddle: Can February March? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Tuesday: Clouds and sun; not as cold, with a high of 36 and low of 28 degrees.
• Wednesday: Breezy in the morning, temps: high: 43, low: 26.
• Thursday: Cloudy; p.m. showers, breezy, with a high of 55 and low of 29 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Hundreds swap sweets in record bid for world's largest Christmas cookie exchange (newstribune.com) — A Monongahela native led a massive Christmas cookie exchange that donated thousands of cookies to the Monongahela Area Historical Society to help restore its Longwell House home. Hundreds of bakers gathered at the Washington County Fairgrounds and remote locations to set a record-sized swap, raise funds, and collect food and gift card donations for regional charities while celebrating Western Pennsylvania’s cookie-table tradition.
   

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🗓 Events Nearby

Tuesday December 16

• Supersuckers
  The Crafthouse Stage & Grill , 5024 Curry Rd , Pittsburgh
  7:00 pm

Sunday December 21

• The Wizards of Winter
  State Theatre Center For the Arts , 27 E Main St , Uniontown
  4:00 pm

Monday December 22

• Keystone Oaks Golden Eagles vs Charleroi Area Cougars
  Keystone Oaks High School , 1000 Kelton Ave , Pittsburgh
  6:00 pm
• Monessen Council Meeting
  Monessen City Hall , Monessen
  6:30 pm

Wednesday December 31

• New Year's Eve at Noon
  303 Broad Ave , Belle Vernon
  3:00 pm
• Wine Down Wednesday
  Thistlethwaite Vineyards , 151 Thistlewaite Ln , Jefferson
  5:00 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• A desk fire on the 7th floor of the BNY Mellon Building in downtown Pittsburgh was reported and subsequently extinguished, with the fire contained to one cubicle.
  9:00AM on Dec 15: Caller reports a desk on fire on the 7th floor of the BNY Mellon Building in downtown Pittsburgh. (Nextdoor )

• McDonald's posted a job opening for Full Time - Daylight Custodial / Maintenance Team Member in Charleroi. Apply here.
• General Dynamics Mission Systems posted a job opening for Sr Material Handling Associate in Charleroi. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Monongahela here.

🗞 Nearby News

Monessen

• Pitt volleyball outlasts Purdue, returns to Final Four (monvalleyindependent.com)
• Pa. adopts science-of-reading reforms after years of reading struggles (centredaily.com)

Charleroi

• 2025 WPIAL All-Conference Football Team: Century (triblive.com)

California

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